Highlighting titles

[drbgaijin]

There is a choice of 4 different "highlighting" possibilities for Menus.

 

Is there a way to add other possibilities?

 

For example: can I create a highlighting effect that would change the text colour when a menu title was selected?

Regards,

Douglas

[mmace]

Thank you for the tip, Maff

 

A follow up question, and one I was thinking of asking here is:

 

I am making backgrounds in Photoshop (1920 x 1080 pixels) for using in 16:9 format.

 

Does the resolution of the background in Photoshop have any noticable effect in DVDit?

I mean is there a noticable difference between e.g. 96 pix/inch and 160 pix/inch (I just took those numbers from fantasy...)

 

Regards,

Douglas

the dpi doesn't make any difference as long as the pixel number is 1920x1080. you could do it at 3000dpi and it wouldn't matter

[SS Scott]

only way to do what you are suggesting is to do a switched menu trick. you start with a still menu with no audio, fully create the menu, duplicate it as many times as you have buttons, link button 1 to menu 2, button 2 to menu 3, etc with each of the subsequent duplicated having the color of the buttons changed. you then use the "auto activate" command to make it so that when a button is rolled over it will automatically trigger the menu it is connected to. the effect is you can have full color rollovers. tricky but do-able.

[drbgaijin]

There is a choice of 4 different "highlighting" possibilities for Menus.

 

Is there a way to add other possibilities?

 

For example: can I create a highlighting effect that would change the text colour when a menu title was selected?

Regards,

Douglas

 

Thanks, Scott

 

I'll keep a copy of your reply for a future date.

Just now it was one of 10 people that I had given my DVD to for testing that had suggested the colour change.

I will go with the 9 who were happy with the standard highlighting!

 

Regards,

Douglas

[mmace]

create the menu in photoshop, duplicate all text, flatten the image except for 1 copy of each of the text layers, use that as the background. change the colour of the text layers, then flatten them to one layer (but not to the background layer) and use this as the highlight layer

 

much easier than using different menu's for each one

[drbgaijin]

create the menu in photoshop, duplicate all text, flatten the image except for 1 copy of each of the text layers, use that as the background. change the colour of the text layers, then flatten them to one layer (but not to the background layer) and use this as the highlight layer

 

much easier than using different menu's for each one

 

Thank you for the tip, Maff

 

A follow up question, and one I was thinking of asking here is:

 

I am making backgrounds in Photoshop (1920 x 1080 pixels) for using in 16:9 format.

 

Does the resolution of the background in Photoshop have any noticable effect in DVDit?

I mean is there a noticable difference between e.g. 96 pix/inch and 160 pix/inch (I just took those numbers from fantasy...)

 

Regards,

Douglas